Fear Sees Walls. Love Sees Hope.
During a time when I was confronted with a lot of fear, I created a series of hand motion prayers (for my own use) to move from fear to Love.
Beloved,
Fear wrote a book about you. It’s very short. It reads,
“One day our beloved came up against a wall. Our beloved thought, “Well, it must be there for a reason!” and then our beloved went back from whence they came. The End.”
Whether it’s a true story or not, Fear wants you to convince you that obstacles are evidence that you’re going the wrong way. That the walls are there for a reason and you should listen to their reasoning:
it’s too dangerous
you don’t have what it takes
it won’t turn out the way you think you’ll fail
you’ll embarrass yourself and others
..and so on and so forth.
Fear has one hundred reasons why you should stop.
But what if obstacles are there for a reason, but not the one Fear wants you to believe?
What if obstacles are evidence that you’re on the right path?
To be confronted by a wall means you’re attempting to grasp a wisdom that is not easily attainable, like a new skill, talent, insight, perspective, revelation, and it’s in the overcoming (or going through) that we are transformed into something new. The walls are our teacher.
Love sees hope in these walls because Love sees past the wall to the transformed you on the other side of it.
Love also wrote a book about you.
It’s very short. It reads,
“One day our beloved came up against a wall. Our beloved thought, “Well, it must be there for a reason!” and our beloved understood the wall was evidence that they were on the right path to becoming the person they always hoped they could be. The End.”
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I’m in the midst of writing a novel on retreat, and everyday I encounter walls of fear. It’s remarkable how, to my surprise, I seem capable of gently moving over the walls through a daily discipline. Now I see devotion in that discipline and that I’m in a loving relationship with my book and its characters. And loving anyone fills you with paralyzing fear at times, right? I can still remember how scared I was of my first child! And yes, this fear has been a great teacher in my life. Your message has helped me this morning ☀️